St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-27
STRAY sUNBEANIs.

This is superstitious age, and don't you
forget it. In spite of all our boasted en-
lightenment there is just as much supersti-
ton in the world to-day as there was in the
dark ages. When a magnetic healer can
crowd a large amusement hall with cripples
and paralytics, attracted by the promise of a
free cure, and that, too, in u city noted for
is culture, We have no reason for laughing
at the superstitious follies of the aneients.
The faith doctors and magnetic healers are
likely TO prove the Scylla and Charybdis of
medical science.
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Nor is this superstition confined to the
humber classes. 1t is just as rampant in up
per tendon of society as it is in the lower
stratum, and possibly more so. If there were
Witch of Endor to-day there would be
plenty or SAULs to visit her. The only differ
ence is that the superstitious people of the
upper class prefer darkness to light when
they go an errand of calling up spirits from
the vastly deep. They go out under the
stealth of night to visit the faith doctors and
the mind readers and the spirit mediums.
The stories which the fortune tellers some
times tell of the heightened people who visit
their denS are not fictions.
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A well known society lady in this city patron
ICES faith cure establishment Her husband
is Il hard-hearted infidel who looks upon
faith cure as sacrilegious nonsense,an will
not tolerate his wife's belief. Consequently
she takes advantage of his business hours,
when he is engaged in his Office down town,
to enjoy the faith treatment. A few days
ago she was seen coming out of a house
where the banner of christian Science is
hung on the outer wall. She tarried for
moment on the steps of the piazza, craning
her head first in one direction and then III
the other to make sure that no acquaintance
was within sight. Then she rapidly tripped
out to the sidewalk, and another sweeping
glance of the street was taken. Assured that
she had not been recognized, but still eau
tious not ~ to betray herself, she hur-
ried on to the corner. Here she
checked her gait for only half a second to
give mysterious wave of the hand and to
see that it had been recognized by the proper
party. The person for whom this mysterious
signal was intended was no other than the
ccachman who held the lady's carriage in
waiting on side street. The lady did not tarry
for the carriage, however, but walked on and
on un til she had circumvented a half dozen
blocks. The coachman evidently knew his
business, for he leiSurely drove the carriage
along the cross street for three or four blocks
and halted until his mistress came up and en-
tered the carriage. The lady was ashamed of
her superstition, and yet is a slave to it. The
poor woman is only one of many such.
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Judge MACDONALD has not been sworn in
yet, but for all that he is performing the
duties of a congressman with the vigor of a
veteran in public service. He is sending out
public documents and garden seeds with all
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SONS long congressional career.
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The suddenness with which Anarchist
NEEBE was hied off to Joliet last night indi-
Gates that the Illinois state authorities mean
business and propose to have no dilly-dally
ing in melting out justice to the bomb throw
ers. The other seven can take fair warning
from their comrades experience and prepare
to mount the scaffold